Proposes a 3-year experimental program in which volunteers from the local bar would each supervise one senior law student in a 3-to 5-credit hour clinical practicum experience that would include a regular seminar in lawyering skills. (JT)

The underlying idea of this work is that medical students should learn to be effective problem solvers through their curricular experiences. The author studied 32 fourth year medical students from two colleges: 16 were from a college with a traditional curriculum; 16 were from a college whose curriculum included some early attempts at…

Considerations to be made in designing an optometry curriculum for treating patients with eye diseases are reviewed, including the scope of practice and specific areas of instruction in the biomedical, basic vision, and clinical vision sciences. (MSE)

One medical school's system for evaluating high-risk students and providing them with feedback during their clerkships consists of regular information exchange among directors of all clerkships, careful selection and orientation of residents and faculty members involved, monthly grading conferences and counseling, regular committee review of…

A program in one of the National Institutes of Health offers clinical training fellowships as a means of training potential dental school faculty by providing both unique clinical skills and high-quality research experience. The program was developed in response to a perceived need for change in academic dentistry. (MSE)

Discusses a recent survey on grading practices in legal education, with particular emphasis on clinical instruction. The author believes that pass/fail grading is not adequate for clinical experiences and suggests ways in whichh to implement more precise evaluating methods. (PG)

Describes the development and implementation of a community medicine clerkship in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. (Author)

Paper presented at the Council of Academic Societies Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 1968.

A medical humanities program emphasizing clinically oriented training is described. The four-year required curriculum, in which students accompany attending physicians on rounds, is taught by faculty representing a wide range of medical and non-medical disciplines. The approach is seen to challenge good teachers and evoke humanities themes from…

The use of student health centers at California higher education institutions as medical student training sites in 1988 is documented. Directors of the 28 residency programs using student health centers for their residents reported satisfaction with the association, and health center directors with residents on rotation also reported overall…

A study investigated the relationships among nine instruments designed to measure clinical knowledge and performance in a third-year surgery clerkship. Results suggest that various types of measures are necessary for broad evaluation of clinical performance. Instruments clustered into two groups: measures of medical knowledge and clinical…

An innovative internal medicine clerkship provides a one-month ambulatory care component followed by two months of traditional inpatient experience. Assessment of the changes in student ability to diagnose in a variety of brief cases found knowledge gains in the shorter ambulatory care segment were double those in the longer segment. (MSE)

Investigates the relationship among trainees' counseling experience, familiarity with specific client symptomatology, case conceptualization integrative complexity, and preferences for supervisor style. Data from 100 beginning practicum to intern-level counselor trainees reveals that general trainee experience and familiarity with client…

In an effort to solve problems inherent to clinical clerkships, the faculty at the University of Kentuchy College of Medicine designed a project to identigy the core curriculum in ambulatory pediatrics consisting of 19 instructional packages. nAuthor/PG)